Samurai Champloo + Sex Trafficking

Trafficking: The recruitment, transportation, harboring, transfer or sale for the purposes of placing people in any type of forced labor, including, but not limited to forced prostitution, sexual services, domestic servitude, etc.

That's what we discussed today in my Sexual & Intimate Violence class. We also discussed the fact that over 2 million children are forced into prostitution every year. Half of them live in Asia. But the problem exists in EVERY country. My city of Atlanta is currently the #1 city for sex trade in America...sad.

During the discussion I thought of this episode of Samurai Champloo called "Gamblers & Gallantry." It focuses on a woman who's sold to a brothel by her husband after he falls deep into debt. The storyline is actually a pretty realistic account of what commonly occurs to some wives across the globe (sans the knight in shining armor stuff). And it's one of my FAV episodes of the series. Check it out.